On 02.04.2011 15:56, Scott Ritchie wrote: > This has long been "good practice" for a variety of reasons > > 1) Independent PPA packages of new upstream versions can be > automatically replaced when a proper distro update occurs. > 2) If the PPA package itself gets promoted to the archive, it can be > replaced by just dropping the ~ppa > 3) It makes the version string more meaningful, as it prevents the > possibility of an official and PPA package having the same version > 4) If you are branching foo-0ubuntu1 and need multiple iterations you > now have a proper number to increment without implying you've rebased > off foo-0ubuntu2. > > Making such a change would have other value: > > 1) It makes it much easier to detect nonstandard packages on a system. > This can be done with automated tools too without fear of false > positives (in bug reports, with apport, with update manager, etc) > 2) If all PPA packages were so branded, it would be much easier to > implement a "remove all PPA packages" type of feature.
PPA's are used to prepare uploads for the distribution too. In this case you don't want to have a ~ppaN suffix. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
